YA’AKOV’S / JACOB’S CHILDREN
B’resheet/Genesis 29: 30~30:24
LE’AH/LEAH
1. Re’uven/Reuben (רובן) (see a son!)
2. Shim’on/Simeon (שמעון) (hearing)
3. Levi/Levy (לוי) (joining)
4. Y’hudah/Judah (יהודה) (praise)
9. Yissakhar/Issachar (יששכר) (hire/reward)
10. Z’vulun/Zebulun (זבולון) (living together)
?? Dinah (דינה) (controversy over rights) (actually, she’s the 11th child)
BILHAH (RACHEL’S HANDMAIDEN)
5. Dan (דן) (he judged)
6. Naftali (נפתלי) (my wrestling)
ZILPAH (LEAH’S HANDMAIDEN)
7. Gad (גד) (good fortune)
8. Asher (אשר) (happy)
RAQUEL/RACHEL
11. Yosef/Joseph (יוספ) (may he add)
12. Ben-Oni (בך אוני)(son of my grief) but changed by Ya’akov/Jacob to Binyamin/Benjamin (בנימין) (son of the right hand/son of the south)
Only child born in the Promised Land